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So, by way of an update on the refurb X34...
With the huge caveat that it only cost £400, I have to say I’m very happy.
Despite going for free, but slow delivery, it came next day!
Packaging was a big plain box, but was really well packaged indeed with a thick robust plastic type box, with very thick sturdy foam inside.
It’s the original x34, not an x35a, and it’s clearly been sat around for some time as both monitor and stand were quite dusty.
Also came with the piece of paper for the engineer who repaired it with the documented problem and his hand written notes regarding the repair too. Not that it meant much to me, but it’s nice to know what lead to this monitor requiring refurb in the first place.
Zero cosmetic marks, zero dead pixels. There is some screen glow, but it really doesn’t notice unless you’re looking for it with a straight black screen.
Overclocks to 95hz, can’t handle 100hz though.
On the monitor itself, I have it overclocked to 100hz. In Windows I used the drop down box to choose the refresh rate.
At 95hz it works a treat, and oddly is recognised as 94hz.
At 100hz it’s a black screen with occasional flickers of the desktop.
Tried out G Sync for the first time ever, and have to say I’m very impressed. (Pendulum thing, and just a super brief check in PUBG).
The computer it’s for isn’t built yet and this testing was done on a very old and clapped out bad boy, so testing out gaming on it right now would be pointless. My GTX 970 isn’t going to do it any justice.
Oddly, I can’t get Nvidia control panel to install. It says it can’t run with current driver, and the same error persisted even after I updated to the latest drivers. This means I couldn’t see confirmation of G Sync, but the difference was clear with it on/off in the pendulum test, and it removed tearing in PUBG, so it’s there.
All in all, no complaints and I’m sure it’ll tide me over until something emerges that’s High refresh, G Sync, and has reliable QA.
With the huge caveat that it only cost £400, I have to say I’m very happy.
Despite going for free, but slow delivery, it came next day!
Packaging was a big plain box, but was really well packaged indeed with a thick robust plastic type box, with very thick sturdy foam inside.
It’s the original x34, not an x35a, and it’s clearly been sat around for some time as both monitor and stand were quite dusty.
Also came with the piece of paper for the engineer who repaired it with the documented problem and his hand written notes regarding the repair too. Not that it meant much to me, but it’s nice to know what lead to this monitor requiring refurb in the first place.
Zero cosmetic marks, zero dead pixels. There is some screen glow, but it really doesn’t notice unless you’re looking for it with a straight black screen.
Overclocks to 95hz, can’t handle 100hz though.
On the monitor itself, I have it overclocked to 100hz. In Windows I used the drop down box to choose the refresh rate.
At 95hz it works a treat, and oddly is recognised as 94hz.
At 100hz it’s a black screen with occasional flickers of the desktop.
Tried out G Sync for the first time ever, and have to say I’m very impressed. (Pendulum thing, and just a super brief check in PUBG).
The computer it’s for isn’t built yet and this testing was done on a very old and clapped out bad boy, so testing out gaming on it right now would be pointless. My GTX 970 isn’t going to do it any justice.
Oddly, I can’t get Nvidia control panel to install. It says it can’t run with current driver, and the same error persisted even after I updated to the latest drivers. This means I couldn’t see confirmation of G Sync, but the difference was clear with it on/off in the pendulum test, and it removed tearing in PUBG, so it’s there.
All in all, no complaints and I’m sure it’ll tide me over until something emerges that’s High refresh, G Sync, and has reliable QA.